Claire Perry O'Neill had a 20-year career in consultancy and finance before entering UK politics in 2010. She served as Minister for Energy and Clean Growth in the UK Cabinet where she led the development of the UK's Clean Growth and Green Finance Strategies and headed the UK CCUS taskforce. Claire also created the global Powering Past Coal Alliance (with Canada), negotiated the world's first public-private Offshore Wind Sector Deal and brought forward the country's Net Zero legislation in 2019. She led the UK's winning bid to host COP26. She now co-chairs the Global Imperatives Advisory Board for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and serves as a main Board Director for Occidental Petroleum and Climate Impact X. She is also a Senior Global Advisor for McKinsey and Company and an advisor to the international investment firm Hambro Perks. She invests in and advises several companies in a global low carbon technology portfolio. Claire is a member of the UK Privy Council, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the UK Energy Institute and is a Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.